Bhatia turned a corner entering this season, finishing in the top 15 at The Sentry, the Sony Open and the Farmers Insurance Open.
The 22-year-old lefty Akshay Bhatia withheld a jaw-dropping late run by Denny McCarthy to win the Valero Texas Open in a sudden-death playoff and play his way into next week’s Masters. Bhatia nearly ran away with the tournament, holding a six-shot lead entering the 10th hole before McCarthy birdied eight of the final nine holes — including seven straight to finish — to reach 20-under par and put the pressure on Bhatia. Bhatia then made his 11-foot birdie putt to force a playoff.
He then earned back his card in 2022 and went on to win the 2023 Barracuda Championship, an opposite-field PGA Tour event that earned him no points. Advertisement He missed the next three cuts but is now on a run of T17 , T12 and a dominant win this week in San Antonio against a solid field. Now, he’ll make his Masters debut and just his second career major appearance. He played in the 2021 U.S. Open and made the cut. This week, though, Bhatia went wire-to-wire for the big win.
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